Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.